New in August 2026
35 new resources joined CroneHub in August 2026.
Books
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Your Encore Life: Take Center Stage for Life’s Second Half
Lynette Reiling’s guide to the second half is built on William Bridges’ three-phase model of transition — the ending, the disorienting middle, the new beginning…
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Sex, Sensuality and the Senior Woman
At 72, after a divorce, profound loss and decades without intimacy, Andrea Feinberg made an online dating profile. What follows is the account of what…
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Song of the Selkie
In the old Scottish tale, a selkie sheds her sealskin to dance on the shore and a man steals it to keep her on land…
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Druid Hill: A Veil of Time Novel
Book two of the Veil of Time series. Maggie has built a careful, predictable life back in the present, but the past has not finished…
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Dunadd: A Veil of Time Novel
Book one of the Veil of Time series. After losing her daughter, Maggie retreats to the Scottish countryside and the shadow of ancient Dunadd Fort.…
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Iona: A Veil of Time Novel
Book three of the Veil of Time series. Drawn once more into eighth-century Scotland, Maggie lands in the middle of a bitter struggle between the…
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Oh Crap – I’m 50!: A Journey from Fearful to Fabulous (Sometimes)
As her 50th birthday approached, Jo Blackwell felt old, unfit, irrelevant and quietly terrified — so she started writing. The blog that became this book…
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Face it, Own it!: The Bare-faced Truth about Midlife Women
When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Photographer Jo Blackwell put that question to hundreds of women and photographed 166 of them…
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Ageing Wonderfully Well: The Good News about Midlife and Growing Older
We’re often told to fear ageing — to shrink, quieten down, disappear a little. Jo Blackwell’s answer, written the year she approached 65, is that…
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After Amba
Amba is a fashion and travel writer and a 1920s “New Woman” — she flouts the mores, climbs the barriers, makes some deeply questionable choices,…
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The Strange Woman
In 1621 the Yorkshire poet Edward Fairfax accused seven women from the village of Timble of witchcraft. They were tried twice at York and acquitted…
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Fifty First Dates After Fifty: A Memoir
At fifty-eight, just out of her longest relationship, Carolyn Lee Arnold decided not to look for a partner but to gather data — fifty first…
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50 After 50: Reframing the Next Chapter of Your Life
At fifty, Maria Leonard Olsen had drunk her way out of a twenty-five-year marriage, put every egg in the motherhood basket, and willfully derailed a…
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WonderCrone
Jennifer Butz founded WonderCrone after colliding with ageism at sixty, and the blog is the long-running heart of it — more than a hundred numbered…
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Your Encore Life Coach
Lynette Reiling writes short pieces on what the second half actually asks of a woman — living alone after fifty, moving across the country to…
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PowerMoneyIntimacy
Emily Fontaine is a sexual health educator and MPS candidate at the University of Minnesota, and she writes weekly about the things women are taught…
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Women At The Edge Of The Woods
Kyra Faison-Gardner’s Substack, subtitled “an examined life after 50: notes on sovereignty, sisterhood, and becoming.” Writing from 62, she publishes several essays a week on…
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Midlife & Beyond with Jo Blackwell
Jo Blackwell’s weekly letters on ageing well — confidence, purpose, identity, and what she calls “the good news about midlife and growing older.” Written from…
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This Senior Woman’s Erotic Thoughts
Andrea Feinberg spent a career as a marketing MBA and started writing erotica in her seventies — “I somehow manifested a life in my 70s…
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Jo Blackwell
Jo Blackwell is a UK writer, photographer and pro-age advocate — founder of The Midlife Movement and creator of the BBC-featured Face It, Own It…
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Refirement
A UK-based global movement, registered as a Community Interest Company, set up to reimagine retirement for women — and in particular to back mature women…
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The Teri and Edith Show
Novelist Teri M. Brown and Edith Zeitlberger talk shop — writing tips, book marketing, the realities of independent publishing — in a loose, co-hosted conversation,…
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Online For Authors Podcast
Every Tuesday, novelist Teri M. Brown interviews an independent author about the book she has actually read and reviewed beforehand — where the story came…
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Midlife & Beyond Conversations
Every Tuesday, writer and photographer Jo Blackwell — founder of The Midlife Movement, and newly 65 — pulls up a chair for solo reflections and…
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Elder is the New Black
Dr. Myra Sabir — a narrative psychologist at Binghamton University who has spent twenty-five years on reminiscence, life-writing and mothering — makes the case that…
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The Secret to Living Longer May Be Your Social Life
Psychologist Susan Pinker went to Sardinia to work out why the island has six times as many centenarians as the Italian mainland. It is not…
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How to Live Passionately—No Matter Your Age
Isabel Allende was seventy-one when she gave this talk, and she names the wrinkles herself before anyone else gets the chance. What follows is candid…
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Why We Need More Age-Gap Friendships
Liz Atkin makes the case for friendships that cross the generations, and against the generational labels — boomer, millennial, Gen Z — that make them…
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Reimagining Communities for All Ages
Laura Poskin spent nearly five years writing an AARP column on livable communities and intergenerational solidarity before taking over Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh. Her talk is…
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Building Age-Friendly Communities
Geriatrician Samir Sinha asks a blunt question about the extra decades modern medicine has handed us: people are living longer, but are they living well?…
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How to Rethink Age as a Benefit Not a Barrier
Gillian Larson was cast on Survivor at sixty-one and voted out six days later. A nurse of thirty-eight years, she went home and built a…
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Why You Feel Younger (or Older) Than Your Age
Gerontologist Tracey Gendron takes apart the compliment “you’re only as old as you feel.” If feeling young is the goal, she argues, then feeling old…
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3 Questions to Help You Age Stronger, Healthier, and Happier
A pain specialist of twenty-five years, Dr. Brenda Lau was diagnosed with osteopenia despite decades of exercise — and concluded that medicine had been overlooking…
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I Got Fired for Saying “Yippee.” Ageism Loves Silence
At 55, Loren Greiff was put on a performance improvement plan for writing the word “yippee” in an email to a hiring manager. She quit…
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Midlife & Beyond with Jo Blackwell
The YouTube arm of Jo Blackwell’s Midlife & Beyond — short, thoughtful videos on ageing well, confidence, retirement and what comes next, delivered from the…
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